Agricultural science

Emerging and re-emerging viruses are a constant threat to plants.

Winner of the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the authored book categoryUrban development is one of the leading worldwide threats to conserving biodiversity.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This textbook is the first to teach insect physiology and biology specifically to students who lack a strong background in biochemistry and molecular biology.

Composting is increasingly used as a recycling technology for organic wastes.

A complete overview of the technologies and products for microbial-based pest control.

In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation.

This book is centred around various interwoven topics which are fundamental to policy analysis in agriculture.

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq.

This guide will help you to survive and thrive during your degree and on into the workplace.

This book systematically presents 40 pests, 7 natural pest enemies, and 20 diseases and weeds commonly encountered in sugarcane production, combining clear colour photos with detailed scientific descriptions.

This book provides a detailed study of urban agricultural development.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America.

Based on the 2014 'Enhanced Genepool Utilization ?

This review of recent developments in our understanding of the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and biotechnology covers a research area with enormous untapped potential.

Written by a globally prominent entomologist, Agricultural Acarology: Introduction to Integrated Mite Management provides tools for developing integrated mite management programs for agriculture, including management of plant-feeding mites, mites attacking bees and livestock, and stored products.

In the dynamic realm of agriculture, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) emerge as catalysts for unprecedented transformation and growth.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

While there continues to be refinement in defining and assessing sustainable management, there remains the urgent need for policies that create the conditions that support sustainability and can halt or slow destructive practices already underway.

Nanotechnology is believed to accelerate our fight to sustain and enhance crop productivity for the ever-increasing world population.

Genetic Engineering of Horticultural Crops provides key insights into commercialized crops, their improved productivity, disease and pest resistance, and enhanced nutritional or medicinal benefits.

This new volume looks at the impact, assessment, and remediation of various environmental contaminants.

The lingo of soil science is a language unto itself.

This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia's rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use.

This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy some of the driest and hottest and the highest and coldest on earth as well as vast steppes and prairies in more temperate climes.

Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship, this timely book presents recent case-study research on the globalization of food systems, and the impacts for communities around the world.

Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering.

The Handbook Digital Farming sheds light on the technological, economic, social, and legal perspectives of the digital transformation.

Lack of knowledge about, and noncompliance with, international standards can result in loss of sales and partnership opportunities as well as possible legal action.

The increasing human population and the associated activities have negatively influenced the ecosystems and life on earth.

This book provides a thorough introduction to and examination of agricultural value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Role of Giant Honeybees in Natural and Agricultural Systems provides multidisciplinary perspective about the different facets of giant honeybees.

What is the balance of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy more than half a century after its birth?

This book presents the proceedings of the 10th Central European Congress on Food (CEFood), held on June 11-13, 2020, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This new edition discusses chemical and engineering principles as they apply to the cleanup and removal of hazardous chemicals from soil and groundwater.

This book systematically and comprehensively introduces concepts, theories, principles, and applications of Thermal Infrared (TIR) imaging spectral techniques and TIR remote sensing.

Phosphorus is essential to the production of our food, and it also triggers algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and oceans when it slips through our hands.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of strategies to combat pressing environmental challenges, focusing on pollution remediation and climate change mitigation.

Plankton populations have lived in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years, performing essential functions within marine ecosystems.

This volume contains 22 chapters introducing a wide range of semi-arid and geologic landscapes.

Community seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the support of international and national non-governmental organizations.

Understanding the causes and contributing factors leading to outbreaks of food-borne illness associated with contamination of fresh produce is a worldwide challenge for everyone from the growers of fresh-cut produce through the entire production and delivery process.

In light of public concerns about sustainable food production, the necessity for human and environmental protection, along with the evolution of herbicide resistant weeds, call for a review of current weed control strategies.

Metal toxicity and deficiency are both common abiotic problems faced by plants.

Potatoes are a crucial food crop around the world, grown in nearly 150 countries.

This book reviews the production of bioplastic from various raw materials and recycling wastewater into useful bioproducts by bacteria.

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.